For the price, this is a good overnight stop when driving through Iowa. It is close to I-80, there are chain restaurants nearby. You can drive less than 10 miles from the hotel and find any standard chain restaurant or store that you find in franchise America.

The hotel was clean, although the hall had the institutional smell. The rooms were extra large. Everything worked in our rooms so it met our need. We used a coupon from one of the free travel books at the Iowa welcome stop and paid under $50. for the room.

The breakfast was marginal, the coffee was weak, but what can you expect for under $50. a night?

The pluses here are that the front desk staff was friendly, and you can get a 20% discount off your total bill at the Benningans in front ( including liquor!). Also the room included a microwave and minifridge.

The minuses include no A/C in the hallways, breakfast ends at 9am, and my tv was slow. Slow as in if you changed the channel you had to wait a few seconds to get reception. Not really that big a deal if you knew what you wanted to watch. But pretty annoying if you just wanted to channel surf.